Non-refillable bottle



(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

ADOLPHUS G. CANADA, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,566, dated December 22, 1896.

Application filed February 18, 1896. Serial No. 579,765. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPHUS G.. CANADA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Fillable Bottles and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact deseriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in non-llable bottles; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

It has lately become a more or less common practice for dishonest dealers after a bott-le containing a high grade of liquor has become empty to refill this bottle with liquor of an inferior quality without changing the trademark or other means of identiiication of the original high-grade liquor. It is to prevent this fraud that the herein-described device was invented.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters throughout the several views.

Figure 1 represents a central vertical section through the top of the bottle and the auxiliary cork or valveseat and shows the valve in the position adapted to prevent the refilling of the bottle. f Fig. 2 represents a similar section to that shown in Fig. 1, but with the bottle inverted and in the position to pour out liquor. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the auxiliary cork or the valve-seat placed in the bottom of the neck of the bottle. Fig. 4i is a perspective view of the valve shown in Figs. l and 2, and Fig. 5 represents a modied form of the valve wherein only two holding-wings are shown.

A represents the top of the bottle, which bottle may be of any desired or preferred shape, and it may be made of any desired or preferred material, such as glass, pottery, or any other suitable material. This bottle is provided with a neck B, generally similar to those of the ordinary construction, except that the basbe of the neck tapers internally, as shown at C represents a valve-seat, which should be made of cork, rubber, or other elastic material which lcan be pressed firmly down on the taper portion b of the neck and Willbe held in place by friction. This valve-seat C is provided with a central opening c, enlarged at its open end, as at c', to t the ball D. Cork or other material not likely to aect the taste of the iiuid contained in the bottle should preferably be used. The valve consists of three parts, a ball D, a valve-stem D', and a holding-head D2, the Whole being made of glass, metal, or other material not likely to affect the taste of the liquid contained in the bottle. The valve-stem D should preferably be made to iit so as to allow the ready passage of the fluid, but it may be made of any desired shape.

The head D2 is provided with a plurality of curved ribs d, having holding-shoulders CZ', which ribs terminate at their lower ends in a point or tip do, thus producing the eifect of one or more arrow-heads attached to the stem D'.

To assemble the parts, the head D2 is shoved through the hole c, and the elastic material of which the valve-seat C is made will allow the head to pass and will contract after the head has passed and will prevent the valve from dropping through the said valveseat when the bottle is inverted. After the valveseat has been put in position'on the valve-stem, the bottle being filled with the liquid intended to be contained therein, the valve-seat and valve are forced downward to the position shown in Fig. 1, and then the upper'or ordinary cork is putin and the bottle is sealed in the ordinary way.

From an inspection of Figs. 1 and 2 it will be evident that while liquid may be poured out of the bottle liquid cannot be poured into the same without tampering with or removing the valve and the valveseat. The various advantages of the hereindescribed construction would readily suggest themselves to any practical mind.

While I have shown the holding-head D2 as projecting down into the body of the bottle, the tapering portion b o f the neck should preferably be so long as to hold the valve-seat C well up in the middle of the neck, and the lower end of the tapering portion b should be small enough to prevent the passage therethrough of the head D2, thus IOO any possibility of forcing the entire Vdevice through the neck into the bottle Will be ob- .With a neck to said bottle, and a valve-seat rigidly held Within saidneck and perforated as shown with an enlarged chamber at the upper end of said perforation, and a Valve having -a ball adapted to fit snugly in said enlarged chamber, a rigid stem projecting through said perforation, and at arrowheaded ribs at right angles to each other at the end of said stein adapted to permit a 2o limited play of said valve-stem in said valveseat, and to lock said stern in said seat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

AD OLPHUS G. CANADA.

Titnesses Lucius T. M. CANADA,

P. H. PHELAN, Jr. 

